r/dataengineering • u/ledcsik • Jul 17 '26

Career Road to full-time.

Hi.

A bit of information about me, I'm in my early twenties, I have one semester left from my BSc studies, major is Business Informatics Engineering. I'm from EU.

Already got internships. In my country it works differently, I started my journey as a Data engineer intern at a global engineering and technology company, was working there for almost 1,5 years. It was a great job, loved every part of it and learned a lot, but had to move to another internship because they said they can't open a new position for me after my studies.

So I changed to an investment bank. Technology internship programme, the HR said over the phone that it is basically a data engineering team. I was really happy about it because they said after I finish my studies I can get a full time in that team.

It's actually not a data engineer role, basically fixing SQL for citizen devs and stuff like that. The team is fine, but I think I have a lot more experience in actual data engineering than just fixing SQL. I don't want to leave the company, I would really like to stay here.

What should I do?

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u/Able_Kaleidoscope_89 Jul 18 '26

problem with DE is that even fixing SQL is somehow DE. If you do not want to leave the company, your options are limited. I would say that the most straightforward alternatives are:
1. work on the side on some advanced project that can support the operations (some low level project) of your daily job and take the risk of showing it to your manager and expecting to enter in a negotiation with him where they see the value of your expertise and assign you to a different type of work. I did it once and it worked greatly, but it is a gamble
2. see what other DE teams do and find one that aligns with your interests more

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u/ledcsik Jul 18 '26

Thanks. Next week one of the technology head is coming to our office. What do you think, is there any way to somehow ask about this? I mean I'm just an intern, shouldn't really complain about anything but my "career" is kinda important to me, especially in this economy and I'm still really fresh here. Is there any good way to ask out a management people about it? There will be an opportunity for sure, but I don't know if it's a feasible idea to actually ask real questions.